Andy Rouse / Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) portrait in sea-ice landscape. Wide angle / fish-eye shot. Svalbard, Norway, September.

Nick Garbutt / Black-browed albatross (Thalassarche melanophris) flying over South Atlantic. Cooper Bay, South Georgia. November.

Ingo Arndt / Mountain Lion (Puma concolor) sub-adult feeding on Guanaco (Lama guanicoe) prey, Torres del Paine National Park, Patagonia, Chile. Siena International Photo Awards 2022 - Remarkable Artwork - Storyboa...

Anup Shah / Olive Baboon (Papio anubis) curious male investigating camera, Masai Mara, Kenya

Anup Shah / African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) herd crossing river, Masai Mara, Kenya

Anup Shah / African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) smelling, Masai Mara, Kenya

Hiroya Minakuchi / Southern Right Whale (Eubalaena australis) sailing at sunset, Peninsula Valdez, Argentina

Shane P. White / Terminal moraine, Perito Moreno Glacier, Los Glaciares National Park, Patagonia, Argentina

Cyril Ruoso / Minden / Long-tailed Macaque (Macaca fascicularis) pair grooming, Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park, Thailand

Cyril Ruoso / Long-tailed Macaque (Macaca fascicularis) looking underwater for food thrown by people, Thailand

Cyril Ruoso / Long-tailed Macaque (Macaca fascicularis) pair looking underwater for food thrown by people, Thailand

Cyril Ruoso / Long-tailed Macaque (Macaca fascicularis) group, Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park, Thailand

Cyril Ruoso / Long-tailed Macaque (Macaca fascicularis) troop, Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park, Thailand

Chien Lee / White-lined Leaf Frog (Phyllomedusa vaillanti) in rainforest, Ecuador

Tui De Roy / Volcan Alcedo Giant Tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra vandenburghi), Alcedo Volcano, Isabela Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Alan Murphy/ BIA / Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) hunting, Alaska

Anup Shah / African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) herd in plain, Masai Mara, Kenya

Tui De Roy / Chatham Island Tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra chathamensis), Galapaguera, San Cristobal Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Michael Quinton / Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) carrying fecal sac from nest cavity in forest, Alaska

Pete Oxford / Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) on water, Urbina Bay, Isabela Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Suzi Eszterhas / Pygmy Three-toed Sloth (Bradypus pygmaeus) swimming in mangrove forest, Isla Escudo de Veraguas, Panama

Alex Mustard / Grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) split level view of young investigating camera lens, Lundy Island, Devon, UK, Bristol Channel, August

Juergen & Christine Sohns / Eurasian Eagle-Owl (Bubo bubo) in forest in winter, Zdarske Vrchy, Bohemian-Moravian Highlands, Czech Republic

Yashpal Rathore / Demoiselle crane (Anthropoides virgo) low angle fisheye perspective of feeding cranes. Khichan, Western Rajasthan, India. February, 2015

Sandra Bartocha / Sun rays shining through European beech woodland (Fagus sylvatica). Serrahn, Muritz-National Park, World Natural Heritage site, Germany, Europe. November 2015.

Anup Shah / African elephant (Loxodonta africana) approaching camera with curiosity, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. Taken with remote wide angle camera.

Anup Shah / African elephants (Loxodonta africana) feeding on loose soil for its minerals, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. Taken with remote wide angle camera.

Anup Shah / African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) herd during storm, Masai Mara, Kenya

Anup Shah / African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) herd during storm, Masai Mara, Kenya

Alex Mustard / Boulder brain coral (Colpophyllia natans) photographed with a long exposure with camera rotation. Taken with circular fisheye lens. Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. Caribbean Sea.

Pete Oxford / Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus) feeding at Bagan (floating fishing platform), Cenderawasih Bay, West Papua, Indonesia. Winner of the Man and Nature Portfolio Award in the Terre Sauvage Nature Images Aw...

Guy Edwardes / Lanyon Quoit ancient burial chamber, Madron, Cornwall, England, UK. September 2015.

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Sandstone rock formations, Vermillion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides) trees in autumn, Rocky Mountains, Colorado

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides) trees in autumn, Utah

Alex Hyde / Canopy of a Beech woodland (Fagus sylvatica) in autumn through a circular fisheye lens. Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia. November.

Alex Hyde / View up to Beech (Fagus sylvatica) woodland canopy in winter, photographed with a circular fisheye lens. Derbyshire, UK. December.

Anup Shah / African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) female climbing gully, Masai Mara, Kenya

Alex Hyde / View up towards autumnal Beech (Fagus sylvatica) woodland canopy, taken with a fisheye lens. Derbyshire, UK. October.

Anup Shah / African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) herd walking through grassland, Masai Mara, Kenya

Anup Shah / Masai Giraffe (Giraffa tippelskirchi) males necking, Masai Mara, Kenya, Sequence 3 of 3

Markus Varesvuo / Dippers (Cinclus cinclus) fighting in snow, Kuusamo, Finland, March. Second Place in the Telephoto Lens Category of the Terre Sauvage Nature Images Awards competitiion 2015.

Konrad Wothe / View up into canopy with sun rays shining through the leaves, lowland rainforest, Panguana Reserve, Huanuco province, Amazon basin, Peru.

Richard Du Toit / African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) bulls drinking, Shingwedzi River, Kruger National Park, South Africa

Chris & Monique Fallows / King penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) colony at sunrise. Grytviken, South Georgia Island.

Alex Hyde / Alpine meadow, Nordtirol, Austrian Alps, July 2014.

Floris van Breugel / Two Guanacos (Lama guanicoe) at edge of lake with Cuernos del Paine beyond. Torres del Paine National Park, Chile, June 2014.

Thomas Marent / Zanzibar Red Colobus (Procolobus kirkii) in tree, Jozani Forest, Zanzibar, Tanzania

Thomas Marent / Zanzibar Red Colobus (Procolobus kirkii) in tree, Jozani Forest, Zanzibar, Tanzania

Luciano Candisani / Jacare Caiman (Caiman yacare) waiting for fish to swim through open mouth in wetland, Pantanal, Brazil

Sandra Bartocha / Silver birch (Betula pendula) and Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) trunks in snow, Muritz-National Park, Germany, January.

Theo Allofs / Burchell's Zebra (Equus burchellii) pair drinking at waterhole with Oryx (Oryx gazella) in background, NamibRand Nature Reserve, Namibia

Theo Allofs / Oryx (Oryx gazella) group drinking at waterhole, NamibRand Nature Reserve, Namibia

Olga Kamenskaya / Ice formations in snow on Lake Baikal, Siberia, Russia, March 2007.

Ben Cranke / Conifer tree bending over under weight of snow, Kuusamo, Finland. February 2011.

Ben Cranke / Snow leopard (Uncia uncia) walking down snow covered slope, Hemas National Park, Ladakh, India. Winner of the Long Lens catergory in the Melvita Nature Images Awards competition 2014.

Roland Seitre / Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) female, native to Borneo

Roland Seitre / Barbary Macaque (Macaca sylvanus) mother and young on cement with city in background, Gibraltar, United Kingdom

Luciano Candisani / Clouds reflected in flooded field at the end of the wet season, Pantanal, Brazil

Michel Roggo / Brown bear (Ursus arctos beringianus) fishing for Sockeye salmon in the Ozernaya River, Kamtchatka, Russia, August

Edwin Giesbers / Wide angle close-up of a European grey wolf (Canis lupus) in landscape, captive, Norway, February.

Edwin Giesbers / Wide angle close-up of two European grey wolves (Canis lupus), captive, Norway, February.

Floris van Breugel / Glass beach at sunset - a former dump site, in which the glass has now become pebbles of sea glass. MacKerricher State Park. California. USA. January 2013

Sven Zacek / Rays of sunshine behind pine trees, Southern Estonia, May early morning.

Steven Kazlowski / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) curious young boar on the newly frozen pack ice reaches for remote camera with paw, Beaufort Sea, off the 1002 area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, North Slope, Al...

Ben Cranke,Ben Cranke / Japanese Macaque (Macaca fuscatata) juvenile, reaching out to touch the camera, Jigokudani, Nagano Prefecture, Honshu, Japan

Paul Harcourt Davies,Paul Harcourt Davies / Cornflowers (Centaurea cyanus) growing on fallow fields near Orvieto, Umbria, Italy, June. Taken with fisheye lens

Paul Harcourt Davies,Paul Harcourt Davies / Poppies (Papaver rhoeas) in flower, growing near the military cemetry, Bolsena, Italy. Taken with fisheye lens

Franco Banfi / Blue shark (Prionace glauca) viewed from below, with Snell's window effect, Pico Island, Azores, Portugal, Atlantic Ocean

Franco Banfi / Reef under the surface of shallow waters, at sunset, covered with hard corals, Brush Coral (Acropora hyacinthus) Robust Acropora (Acropora robusta) and other Acropora, Maldives, Indian Ocean

Gavin Hellier / Panoramic view of the foggy skyline of San Francisco at sunrise, California, USA 2011

Mark Carwardine / Hands of a tourist leaning from boat to touch the mouth of a friendly Grey whale (Eschrichtius robustus) lying on the surface, San Ignacio Lagoon, Baja California, Mexico, April 2009

Floris van Breugel / Tiny thimble jellyfish (Linuche unguiculata) drift with the current in the calm turquiose waters of a lagoon in Ofu, American Samoa. The window of sky is called Snell's Window, caused by refraction of...

Andy Rouse / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) standing against expedition ship, taken with extreme wide angle lens, Svalbard, Arctic September 2011

Andy Rouse / Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) on pack ice taken with fisheye lens, Svalbard, Arctic September 2011

Shibai Xiao / Marbled eel (Anguilla marmorata) captured by local people and being held up in net, Hainan Island, China. No release available.

Alex Mustard / Circular fisheye photograph of a colourful coral reef with silhouetted diver, East End, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, British West Indies. Caribbean Sea. Model released

Graham Eaton / An underwater view of a woodland stream, River Glaslyn, Snowdonia NP, Gwynedd, Wales, UK, May

Graham Eaton / A split-level image of a mountain stream, in autumn, with water droplets on lens, Nant Ffrancon Valley, Snowdonia NP, Gwynedd, Wales, UK, October

Alex Hyde / Alpine moon daisy (Leucanthemopsis alpina) on mountainside, fisheye lens. Nordtirol, Austrian Alps, Austria, June.

Andy Rouse / Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) sleeping on pack ice. Wide angle / fish-eye shot. Svalbard, Norway, September.

Peter Cairns / 2020VISION / Group of tourists wearing waterproof clothing and life jackets in zodiac boat for seabird safari tour around Bass Rock, North Berwick, Firth of Forth, Lothian, Scotland, UK, August 2011

Alex Mustard / 2020VISION / View up through tidepool of 2020Vision young photographer, Bertie Gregory, Falmouth, Cornwall, UK, July 2011. Model released. Did you know? Life isnt easy in a rock pool! Animals here must deal with c...

Kathryn Jeffs / Camera lens view of the 'Golden Fleece' in the centre of a horseshoe shaped iceberg off the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica, February 2009, Taken on location for BBC Frozen Planet series

Guy Edwardes / 2020VISION / Traditionally managed wildflower meadow with Ox-eye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare), Hardington Moor NNR, Somerset, UK, May 2011, fish-eye lens. Did you know? Ox-eye daisies used in Medieval times to tre...

Guy Edwardes / 2020VISION / Traditionally managed wildflower meadow with Ox-eye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare), Hardington Moor NNR, Somerset, UK, June 2011, fish-eye lens. Did you know? Around 70% of UK farmland is under agri-env...

Guy Edwardes / 2020VISION / View south with willow trees over Walton Moor on the Somerset Levels from Walton Hill on a misty winter evening with snow on the ground, Somerset, UK, December 2010. Photographer quote: 'The temperatu...

Lisa Hoffner / A baby orphan Elephant (Loxodonta africana), named Murka, wounded by a poacher's spear is comforted by the touch of another elephant's trunk from outside its pen. David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Eleph...

John MacPherson / 2020VISION / Two Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) breaching, Moray Firth, Inverness-shire, Scotland, UK, August. Photographer quote: 'After several frustrating hours with too short a lens and dolphins too...

Peter Cairns / 2020VISION / Red deer (Cervus elaphus) stag in pine forest in snow blizzard, Alvie Estate, Cairngorms NP, Highlands, Scotland, UK, March. Photographer quote: "At times I couldn't see this red deer stag such was th...

Anup Shah / Masai giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi) crossing the Mara River - wide angle perspective, Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya. August 2009.

Edwin Giesbers / Portrait of Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea) looking directly at lens. The Netherlands, June.

Matthias Breiter / Ruffed Grouse (Bonasa umbellus) male drumming, Kenora, Ontario, Canada

Juan Carlos Munoz / Olive tree (Olea europaea) in Sierra de Cardena y Montoro Natural Park. Andalusia, Spain, Feb 2010

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Sockeye Salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) group swimming in fast current during spawning run, Adams River, Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada

Neil Lucas / Panoramic view, Little Razorback Island, Dellbridge Islands, Antarctica, October 2008, Digitally stitched image